Alberto Manguel Quotes - Page 5

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• During the day, the library is a realm of order.

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  Order, Library, Realms

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.17, Vintage Canada

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• Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word "text" unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?

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  Moving, Eye, Roots

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is the essential storyteller: he does not portray life, he creates it in all its wonder and terror and magic.

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  Magic, Essentials, Doe

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• I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting experience for a child. And what I would do was quickly unpack my books and go back to a book I knew well and make sure the same text and the same illustrations were there.

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  Children, Book, Night

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• Deadlines comes as a surprise....superb: a new genre, in fact, combining the pleasures of list-making with that of last-minute eaves-dropping.

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  Lasts, Lists, Facts

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• Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

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  Government, Office, Lockers

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• A book brings its own history to the reader.

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  Book, Reader

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

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  Library, World, Encyclopedia

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• The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.

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  Reading, Mind, Development

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

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  Communication, States, Passages

  Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.95, Penguin

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• Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

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  Book, Nerd, Poor

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.

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  Ignorance, Creating, Illumination

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• Darkness promotes speech.

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  Darkness, Speech

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.250, Vintage Canada

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